Is it possible to accelerate your hard disk drive to speed up file transfer? At first I didn’t know it was possible because thinking that Microsoft might have utilize the best code to have the fastest speed in file copying.
Ponder on this statement:
Is it possible to download files better than with non-resumable Internet Explorer? Or defragment a hard-drive faster and more optimal than with Windows’ defrag utility? Is it possible to edit images better than with Windows’ Paint? Or edit text documents better than with Notepad? What about repartitioning hard-drives? Is Windows’ fdisk always up to the task?
Windows has been designed to be a heavily third-party improvable operating system. While this may sound absurd to some, it is true in every respect. Let’s ponder on this affirmation for a second or two. What would Microsoft have to gain from making Windows the perfect operating system? Sure, they could hire a few more thousand programmers to write every gadget and application you could ever desire, but would it be worth it? It would primarily stiffle application development on their platform and bring about antitrust lawsuits. Not a desirable state indeed. Therefore it should not be too big of a surprise that things which you consider normal and efficient, eventually turn out to be heavily improvable.
Now I’d say YES, it is possible to accelerate your hard disk drive to speed up file transfer. It has been tested and proven to save you 15-25 seconds in copying a 700 megabyte file on the same physical hard-drive compared to normal Windows file copy method.
Here’s what you need to speed up file copying.
BurstCopy is the hard-drive accelerator that significantly increases file transfer speed. By taking full advantage of the DMA support provided by your hard-drive, and using dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times, BurstCopy will significantly reduce the time you spend waiting for files to transfer.
Other than speeding up file transfer speed, it has extra features that Windows should have long ago. If you met any errors during copying files in Windows, the transfer will be terminated. If you’re copying thousands of small files, you know which has been copied and which haven’t. With BurstCopy, any errors that you may typically encounter will not terminate your transfer. A friendly window will inform you of the error, and allow you to choose the appropriate action (skip, retry, abort).
You can also use BurstCopy to pause file transfer process and resume when you’re ready to. It is a known fact that file transfers can slow down other applications that try to use the hard-drive. Using BurstCopy’s pause and resume functions, you can temporarily suspend transfers, while your other programs get exclusive access to the hard-drive. This will for example be useful when you have a long transfer under way, and you need to start a large program. You could just pause the transfer while the program starts, and then resume it.
Another incredible feature that BurstCopy claims to have is it is able to reduce hard disk noise during file transfer. If your hard-drive is typically noisy during file transfers, you will be happy to find out that there is a great reduction in generated noise during BurstCopy transfers. This is a direct result of the methods used to increase the transfer speed and comes at no performance expense. I have no idea how they did it but they have the technology.
BurstCopy is truly a gem! I wouldn’t depend on Windows file copying method from now on. We all know how important a hard drive is because we’d loose all our important files if the hard drive fails. Taking care of your hard drive is important!